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Morice Benin
Person · male · France · Casablanca · born 1947 · died 2021
French singer-songwriter (1947-2021)
Timeline
1940s
2020s
Biography
Biography
Morice Benin, born Moïse Ben-Haïm (21 July 1947 – 19 January 2021) was a French singer-songwriter.
Biography
Moïse Ben-Haïm was born in Casablanca on 21 July 1947. His family shortly thereafter moved to France and francized the family named to Benin. Therefore, he took the name Maurice. He again changed his first name to "Morice" for his singing career.
Morice Benin died in Die on 19 January 2021 at the age of 73.
Studio albums
Peut-être (1972)
Il faudrait toujours pénétrer les gens… (1973)
Je vis (1974)
Peut-être (1975)
C'était en … (1976)
Tu vois c'que j'veux dire (1978)
Passage (1980)
Apocalypse (1981)
Sémaphore (1982)
Aimer sans issue (1983)
Chants de solitude (1984)
Chemin d'Alliance (1985)
Escale (1987)
Respirer (1988)
La Cinquième Saison (1990)
Essentiel (1991)
Funambule amoureux (1996)
La vie à tous (1999)
Vie Vent (2000)
Breizh ardente (2001)
In'spir (2001)
Après le déluge (2002)
La Mémoire et la Mer (2003)
Être (2005)
Pour prendre le large (2008)
Atteindre (2009)
L'Élan (2009)
Arpenteurs (2009)
Des astres annoncés (2012)
Infiniment (2014)
L'Inespéré, entre les lignes… (2017)
L'air de rien (2018)
Juste l'heure (2020)
Compilations
De je vis… en escale (1988)
Des pays…à ...respirer (1991)
Je chante…pour demain (1995)
Comme un fleuve (1998)
Ose…la petite vie (1998)
Chanter… souffle d'homme (2003)
EPs
Rage de dents (1969)
Maurice Benin Chante (1972)
Résister (1987)
Dessine moi un enfant (1987)
Couleurs (1991)
Ici Terre (1995)
Différents (1998)
Je vais vous dire un secret (2001)
Florilège (2008)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Morice Benin head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morice_Benin_2015.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3324080genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3324080seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morice_Beninbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morice_Benin
Why this artist is in the database
- List of French singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Arouet · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3324080 · MusicBrainz: 86d138b1-b38d-446e-83c5-d6d58f9ebb79
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